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United States Mint shortly before its demolition to make way for the new Post Office plans for expansion.
Physical Description: 35mm Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Mayor F. Marion Redd and law partner, Leonidas L. Caudle in their law office in the Law Building that once stood on South Tryon Street.
Physical Description: 35 mm Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Etching of Indpendence Square, the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets in 1909, from the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Souvenir Edition. The original is in the Carolina Room.
Physical Description: 2x4 negative
The home of John Blake's home at 704 North College Street. He operated Blake's Drugstore on the Square. The family is on the frontporch.
Physical Description: 35 mm negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
House on Pine Street, thought to be the first house built by James A. Jones, founder of J.A. Jones Construction.
Physical Description: 35 mm. Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Elizabeth College Student playing a guitar in her dorm room.Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915. The main building is now used by Presbyterian Hospital.
Joseph Graham (1759-1836)The illustration is from General Joseph Graham and his Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History (1904).
Physical Description: 1 1/2 by 2 1/2
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
View of South Tryon Street looking North from the 200 Block with the Piedmont Fire Insurance Building on the left. (Features three arches.)
Physical Description: 5x7 print35 mm negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Presbyterian College was the precursor to Queens College. This building was located on the corner of College and Ninth Streets. When the school changed its name to Queens, the school moved to the Myers Park area.
Physical Description: 8x10 pearl finish
Part of Elizabeth College's campus known as the Midway during the winter of 1902.Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Physical Description: Original in scrapbook
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Notable city leaders who rode the last street car in Charlotte.From left to right: H.W. Harkey, Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners: Mayor Ben E. Douglas. Second Row: N.A. Cocke, Vice-President Duke Power. Third Row: Reverend Dr.
Wagons hauling materials to the Myers Park construction site. Myers Park is one of Charlotte's oldest neighborhoods. George Stephens played an instrumental role in the development of Myers Park in the early part of the twentieth century. The land was owned by Stephens's father-in-law, J.S.
J. E. Grigsby, principal of Second Ward High School, 1931 - 1957.
MIRIAM GRIGSBY BATES.
Watson Park, in Washington Heights, was the only park in Charlotte for the use of blacks in 1915. From: Colored Charlotte, courtesy of QUEENS COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Constance Morrison Colston and her daughter, Rebecca, 1907.
THELMA M. COLSTON.
Charlotte Mayor T.L. Kirkpatrick (1877-1946) with North Carolina Governor Locke Craig (1860-1924) posed for this photograph on January 25, 1916. From left to right: Thomas L. Black (1863-1934), Justice Heriot Clarkson (1863-1942), Edmund Randolph Preston (1880-1957), Mayor Kirkpatrick, Dr.
The Central Hotel was one of the longest operating hotels in Charlotte (1849-1930s.) Originally known as the Mansion House, the name was changed in the 1870s. The owners of the hotel boasted of its large, elegant ballroom.